... Department, and the courts. The only hope lies elsewhere in the world, specifically Poland, one of three European countries that hosted secret CIA prisons where 'high-value detainees' were tortured. ... the establishment of the prison. ABC News ...

Republicans have noted that under Obama, the Hispanic unemployment
rate is higher than the national average. And Hispanics' median
household income fell 7 percent between 2000 and 2010, from $43100 to
$40000, according to the Pew Hispanic ...

For Florida political news today, the Buzz blog is your can't-miss-it
source. St. Petersburg Times writers offer the latest in Florida
politics, the Florida Legislature and the Rick Scott administration.
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Black Hawk monument revealed: Shanta Ista, a Fairfield healer who also goes by his Native American name of Rising Sun, blessed the stone earlier in the morning. He then joined the Standing Bear Council out of Keokuk as they gathered around a large drum and played the Native...

The presumptive winner of Mexico's presidential election on Sunday, Enrique Peña Nieto, is not likely to make any substantive change away from the US-dominated, militaristic approach to the drug war, as many hoped. Central America has become the most ...

Judge won't toss death penalty in Trumann case: PARAGOULD, Ark. - Defense attorneys for a man accused of killing a Trumann police officer sought to remove the death penalty from consideration because of a recent state Supreme Court ruling.

Two and a half years ago a devastating earthquake left more than 200000 dead in Haiti.
While the pace of reconstruction has been slow, aid workers say the
country is finally turning a corner. This is the story of two people —
one American and one ...

Thorpe to Eaton: Century of World's Greatest Athletes: Thorpe, a Native American from Oklahoma's Sac and Fox nation, was a 24-year-old student at the Carlisle, Pa., Indian School in 1912 when he won the first decathlon ever held at an Olympic Games. Eaton is also 24 years old. Just six days before Thorpe ...

The League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC) passed a
resolution today at its 83rd Annual Convention in favor of same sex
unions. The resolution supports marriage equality for all Americans,
including those in the Lesbian, Gay, ...

Ecuador quits former School of the Americas: p><p>Opponents of the school, currently located at Fort Benning, Georgia, blame it for human rights abuses in Latin America by foreign military officers trained there. Defense Minister Miguel Carvajal's announcement came after President Rafael ...

Brazilian Prisoners Can Now Bike Their Way to Freedom: Apparently, prison can be pretty boring. That's on top of it being, well, prison. Plus you've got all that potential labor just sitting around doing nothing terribly productive. Why not utilize it? That's what Santa Rita do Sapucaí prison in Brazil is ...

Brazilian Prisoners Can Now Bike Their Way to Freedom ...: Apparently, prison can be pretty boring. That's on top of it being, well, prison. Plus you've got all that potential labor just sitting around doing nothing terribly productive. Why not utilize it? That's what Santa Rita do Sapucaí prison in Brazil is doing.

Poverty drives them to go against the law: Children early in their life are exposed to abuse, abject poverty, exploitation and discrimination,” Ranjana Kumari, Director of Centre for Social Research told Deccan Herald. “Over a period they become hardened and seeing the prosperous neighbourhood, ...

"God made gays, bi's, transgenders and lesbians. He made those
people." Altogether, St. Petersburg police estimate well over 50000 will
attend this weekend's event. Organizers say it is the largest in the
state of Florida and that makes it in the ...

MEXICO CITY - Sunday's presidential election represents a difficult test for Mexico's wobbly democracy: Can it hold a fraud-free national vote in the midst of a raging drug war? The country's top election official conceded that violence in parts of the ...

reporter: the murders this week of three federal police officers allegedly shot by two fellow officers smuggling cocaine at the mexico city airport have brought the drug war to the forefront days before the mexican presidential election . president ...